Environmental and developmental controls on specific leaf area are little modified by leaf allometry

Functional Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 565-576

  Milla, R ^a,d   Reich, P B ^a   Niinemets, U ^b   Castro Diez P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Functional response; Leaf size; LMA; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; LEAF AREA; ONTOGENY;

EID: 47249133378     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01406.x     Document Type: Article

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